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Thomas Jefferson was not only the author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States, but also an agrarian visionary who wanted America to be a nation of small family farms. Jefferson’s distaste for cities is well known. He called them “pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.” To his closest friend, James Madison, he wrote in 1787, the year of the American Constitution, “When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as in Europe.” https://www.governing.com/context/Thomas-Jefferson-Epidemics-and-His-Vision-for-American-Cities.html
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From his disciplined reading of the Latin and Greek classics, Jefferson derived his belief that the ideal citizen of a republic was a modest family farmer living on the land, growing his own food, and providing his own shelter and clothing. Since this farmer depended on no other person or institution for his livelihood, he was truly free. His relations with the state were entirely voluntary rather than necessary. City dwellers, by contrast, could not grow their own food. By living away from the fecundity of nature, they were dependent on others for food, shelter, clothing and employment.[da nemaju nista i budu sretni, DAVOSki koncept] This made them less free. But “those who labor in the earth,” Jefferson wrote, “are the chosen people of God.”
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A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.”
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The Aftermath — Jefferson’s Post-Epidemic Plan for Cities
Pandemics force humans to rethink habits and institutions (shaking hands, for example).
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He believed — rightly — that when power or money or population was concentrated in one person or one place it was volatile and socially destabilizing, but when those same things were diffused among the many (by way of majority rule and an equitable distribution of money and the fruits of life) they became benign.
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